3 minute learnPatnaJuly 17, 2026 06:45 PM (IST)
Date first revealed: July 17, 2026, 6:43 PM IST
RJD state spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari mentioned on Friday that the get together’s president, who can also be the Nationwide Labor Occasion President and Chief of Opposition in Parliament, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav stays inaccessible to devoted employees.
Tiwari mentioned Tejashwi typically takes go away throughout essential political occasions within the state, making it more and more troublesome for spokespeople like him to defend the get together.
The resignation of such a distinguished public face would expose friction throughout the RJD relating to the rising rift between the highest management and its grassroots base, particularly at a time when essential votes are across the nook.
Initially a sports activities activist, Tiwari joined the RJD in 2009 and have become a part of its sports activities wing. Since 2014, he had been the get together’s spokesperson. Despite the fact that the get together has greater than half a dozen spokespeople, it has typically been Mr. Tiwari who has taken the lead in defending the RJD or pushing its views.
He’s additionally seen as a distinguished face of Brahmins and helped anchor Tejashwi’s broader political technique of increasing the get together’s conventional Muslim and Yadav base into an inclusive coalition.
“I’ve been serving the RJD since 2009 with out adhering to the posts of MLA and MLC. In the midst of the battle to convey the Bihar Cricket Affiliation (Lal faction) into the BCCI, I’ve filed for arrest 4 instances,” he mentioned.
“It was Mr. Lalu Prasad who launched me to get together officers at public capabilities and made me the get together’s spokesperson. However chaos started after he handed over the accountability of the get together to his son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav,” he mentioned.
This distinction highlights a serious shift in organizational tradition. Whereas Mr. Lalu Prasad was recognized for his approachability and uncooked political instincts, Mr. Tejashwi’s extra methodical and cautious work type is more and more perceived by conventional supporters as company aloofness.
“Tejashwi ji is surrounded by sycophants and devoted employees like us do not have time. I requested him to present time in order that he can join extra with actual employees, however my recommendation was not heeded. Everyone seems to be speaking in regards to the Bankipur referendum, however Tejashwi ji is nowhere to be seen. If actual employees will not be revered, there isn’t any level in prolonging issues,” he mentioned.
Mr. Tiwari submitted his resignation to Mangani Lal Mandal get together state president. The grievances being made public in the course of the essential Bankipur parliamentary by-elections dealt a blow to the get together and confirmed rising inner theories that an elite non-political advisory group was successfully isolating Tejashwi from skilled ground-level politicians.
In actual fact, RJD nationwide spokesperson Subodh Kumar Mehta additionally mentioned, “Mrtiunjay Tiwari has at all times supported our get together’s ideology and championed the reason for social justice of our prime leaders. The get together wants to contemplate the issues raised by him. One set of leaders shouldn’t be allowed to dominate the get together.”
Mr. Mehta’s unusually frank acknowledgment of defectors, quite than his typical dismissal, reveals that anger in opposition to Mr. Tejashwi’s internal circle runs deep and is shared by different senior leaders who really feel unnoticed.
